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Dan Nielsen – President Heather Noel – Vice President Randal Pruss – Treasurer Alex Dimitroff – Secretary JD Crookshanks, Steve Grubich, Sandy Hoye, METRO CINEMA is a community based not for profit society devoted to creating and fostering Brad Stromberg, Hitomi Suzuta, opportunities for the exhibition of diverse and unique shared viewing experiences in Edmonton, Alberta Canada. We believe that film and media art are significant art forms; a means of commu- Connie Zimmerman – Directors nication, discussion, and education. Metro Cinema believes in providing opportunities for diverse David Cheoros – Executive Director community and programming. Dan Smith – Operations Manager Pete Harris – Programming Manager Katie Sowden – Communications Director Allan Mulholland – Facility Manager Bill Samoil – Financial Officer Brad Sime – Booth Manager/Head Projectionist Talicia Dutchin – Communications Specialist/ House Manager Nic Keating – Operations Assistant/ Projectionist/House Manager Ryn Climenhaga – Programming Assistant/ House Manager Owen Armstrong – Projectionist Tola Adeshina, Shania Taylor, Metro Cinema is grateful for the support of the Alberta Media Arts Alliance, Robyn-Lynn Toll – House Managers Alberta Media Production Industries Association, CJSR, FAVA, Vue Weekly Lucy Ford, William Latham, Tim Rechner and the Harper-Kennedy Fund at the Edmonton Community Foundation. – Front of House Reps Luka Morita, Sarah Nocente, Max Rubin, Metro Cinema recognizes our relationship with Treaty 6 territory and wishes to Emma Wolodko - Summer Interns acknowledge the Papaschase First Nation on whose unceded land the Garneau Theatre occupies. metroguidecinema

New Releases Page 6 Special Screenings Isle of Dogs & Events Page 17 Grace Jones: Bloodlight & Bami Practically Awesome Disobedience - The Terminator Let the Sunshine In - Clash of the Titans (1981) Vampire Clay - The Thing (1982) Zama - Jaws RBG Backstage Tour Fireworks The University of Alberta Pride Alumni Lu Over the Wall Chapter and Business Alumni Association The Miseducation of Cameron Post - Kinky Boots Cielo Wes Anderson’s First & Latest Skate Kitchen - Bottle Rocket - Isle of Dogs FIFA World Cup Semi-Finals & Final Bad Girls Movie Club Series & Repertory Page 8 Rapid Fire Theatre - Drowning Mona Metro Movie Party! - Folk Lordz - The Room – 15th Anniversary India Film Festival of Alberta - Beach Party Japanese Masters Reel Family Cinema - Ikiru - The Dark Crystal - Hidden Fortress – 60th Anniversary - The Great Muppet Caper - Yojimbo - Matilda This is Parkdale - Spy Kids FAVA Sunday Classics - Video Kitchen - The African Queen - Main Course - Oliver! – 50th Anniversary Cats or Dogs Sci-Fi Cinema - Catwalk: Tales from the Cat Show Circuit - The Children of Men - Isle of Dogs - Barbarella – 50th Anniversary Reclaiming Our Narrative Music Docs - New Muslim Cool - Turn it Around: The Story Of East Bay Punk Fringe ‘O’ Saurus - Two Trains Runnin’ StoryHive Night Gallery Calendar Page 12 Cinema of Psychedelia - Dementia 13 - kuso - Midnite til Dawn: Post-Apocalypse! Staff Pics - Moon Bad Girls Movie Club - Drowning Mona The Cinema of Psychedelia - Kuso Metro Retro - Bullit – 50th Anniversary - Yellow Submarine – 50th Anniversary Art Docs - Breaking The Frame HOMO-CIDAL Drag Show - Cruising

Night Gallery - Dementia 13

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after the credits roll... JULY & AUGUST 2018 SCHEDULE There’s always something new at Metro. Visit metrocinema.org to find all our new releases, and the most up to date film listings, show times, and other information.

new releases

Isle of Dogs Vampire Clay (Chi o sû nendo) Germany/USA 2018, 101 min, Disobedience Japan 2017, 80 min, Dir: Sôichi Umezawa Dir: Wes Anderson Ireland/UK/USA 2017, 114 min, Japanese with subtitles JUL 6 @ 7PM, JUL 7 @ 9:30PM, Dir: Sebastián Lelio JUL 22 @ 9PM, JUL 24 @ 9PM JUL 9 @ 9PM, JUL 11 @ 7PM, JUL 16 @ 9:15PM, JUL 17 @ 9:30PM, After studying in Tokyo, Kaori returns to Aina Academy to finish her prep classes for art JUL 12 @ 9:30PM, AUG 8 @ 9PM JUL 19 @ 9:30PM A woman returns to the Orthodox Jewish com- school. Quickly outshining her jealous class- When, by executive decree, all the canine pets of mates, she soon becomes the star of the class Megasaki City are exiled to a vast garbage-dump munity that shunned her for her attraction to a childhood friend. Once back, their passions when she discovers a bag of old, mysterious clay called Trash Island, 12-year-old Atari sets off and uses it for sculpting assignments. Things alone in a miniature Junior-Turbo Prop and flies reignite as they explore the boundaries of faith and sexuality. begin to get strange, however, when students’ across the river in search of his bodyguard-dog, projects are destroyed and one of Kaori’s Spots. There, with the assistance of a pack of classroom rivals disappears. As the students newly-found mongrel friends, he begins an epic uncover that the clay is possessed by an artist journey that will decide the fate and future of the who previously owned the building and died entire Prefecture. tragically in his workshop, the school finds itself attacked by a gang of murderous, bloodthirsty clay “vampires.”

Let the Sunshine In (Un beau soleil intérieur) France/Belgium 2017, 94 min, Dir: Claire Denis Zama Grace Jones: Bloodlight & French with subtitles Argentina/Brazil/Spain/Dominican Republic/ France/Netherlands/Mexico/Switzerland/ Bami JUL 20 @ 7PM, JUL 22 @ 7PM, JUL 23 @ 9:30PM, JUL 24 @ 7PM, USA/Portugal/Lebanon 2017, 115 min, Ireland/UK 2017, 115 min, JUL 26 @ 9:30PM Dir: Lucrecia Martel Dir: Sophie Fiennes Isabelle is a divorced Parisian painter searching Spanish with subtitles JUL 12 @ 7PM, JUL 18 @ 9:30PM for another shot at love, but refusing to settle JUL 27 @ 7PM, JUL 28 @ 9:30PM, This electrifying journey through the public and for the parade of all-too-flawed men who drift private worlds of pop culture mega-icon Grace in and out of her life. There’s a caddish banker JUL 29 @ 3:30PM, JUL 30 @ 7PM, Jones contrasts musical sequences with inti- who, like many of her lovers, happens to be mar- AUG 2 @ 9:30PM mate personal footage, all the while brimming ried; a handsome actor who’s working through Zama, an officer of the Spanish Crown born in with Jones’s bold aesthetic. Taking viewers his own hang-ups; and a sensitive fellow artist South America, waits for a letter from the King home with her to Jamaica, into the studio with who’s skittish about commitment. What reads granting him a transfer to a better place. His long-time collaborators Sly & Robbie, and like a standard romantic comedy premise is situation is delicate. He must ensure that noth- backstage at gigs around the world, the film transformed, in the hands of master filmmaker ing overshadows his transfer. The years go by reveals Jones as lover, daughter, mother, and Denis, into something altogether deeper, more and the letter from the King never arrives. When businesswoman. poignant, and perceptive about the profound Zama realizes everything is lost, he joins a party mysteries of love. of soldiers that go after a dangerous bandit. 6 metrocinema.org RBG Lu Over the Wall (Yoake USA 2018, 97 min, tsugeru Rû no uta) Dir: Julie Cohen, Betsy West Japan 2017, 112 min, Dir: Masaaki Yuasa AUG 3 @ 7PM, AUG 4 @ 3:15PM, Japanese with subtitles Cielo AUG 5 @ 7PM, AUG 6 @ 12:30PM, AUG 9 @ 7PM, AUG 11 @ 1PM, Canada/Chile 2017, 78 min, AUG 6 @ 7PM, AUG 7 @ 9:15PM, AUG 15 @ 7PM AUG 9 @ 9:15PM Kai lives in a small fishing town with his super- Dir: Alison McAlpine At the age of 84, U.S. Supreme Court Justice stitious grandfather that warns him of the dan- Spanish, English, & French with subtitles Ruth Bader Ginsburg has developed a breath- gers of the merfolk, who he believes will cause AUG 31 @ 7PM, SEP 1 @ 2PM, taking legal legacy while becoming an unex- them harm. When confronted by bullies, Kai is pected pop culture icon. But without a definitive helped by Lu, a fun-loving mermaid who loves SEP 2 @ 7PM, SEP 3 @ 4PM, Ginsburg biography, the unique personal journey music but is vulnerable to sunlight. With a local SEP 4 @ 9:30PM, SEP 6 @ 7:15PM of this diminutive, quiet warrior’s rise to the na- seafood company posing a threat to the town and Cielo is a cinematic reverie on the crazy beauty tion’s highest court has been largely unknown, a number of its inhabitants hostile towards the of the night sky, as experienced in the Atacama even to some of her biggest fans, until now. mer people, Lu, Kai, and his friends must band Desert, Chile, one of the best places on our together to ensure both communities survive. planet to explore and contemplate its splendour. AUG 11 – English dubbed - Free admission for The film drifts between science and spirituality, kids 12 & under. the arid land, desert shores, and lush galaxies, expanding the limits of our earthling imagina- tions. Planet Hunters in the Atacama’s astro- nomical observatories and the desert dwellers who work the land and sea share their evocative visions of the stars and planets, their mythic stories and existential queries with remarkable openness and a contagious sense of wonder.

Fireworks (Uchiage hanabi, shita kara miru ka? Yoko kara miru ka?) The Miseducation of Japan 2017, 90 min, Cameron Post Dir: Akiyuki Shinbô, Nobuyuki Takeuchi USA 2018, 90 min, Dir: Desiree Akhavan Japanese with subtitles AUG 10 @ 9:30PM, AUG 11 @ 3:30PM, AUG 4 @ 9:30PM, AUG 6 @2:30PM Shy Norimichi and fast-talking Yusuke, are AUG 13 @ 9:30PM, AUG 14 @ 7PM, goo-goo-eyed over the same elusive classmate, AUG 15 @ 9:30PM Skate Kitchen Nazuna. But Nazuna, unhappy over her mother’s Cameron Post looks the part of a perfect high decision to remarry and leave their countryside school girl. But after she’s caught with another USA 2018, 100 min, Dir: Crystal Moselle town, plans to run away and has secretly chosen girl in the backseat of a car on prom night, AUG 31 @ 9PM, SEP 1 @ 7PM, Norimichi to accompany her. When things don’t Cameron is quickly shipped off to a conversion SEP 2 @ 4:30PM, SEP 3 @ 7PM, go as planned, Norimichi discovers that a glow- therapy center that treats teens “struggling with ing multi-color ball found in the sea has the same-sex attraction.” At the facility, Cameron SEP 5 @ 9:30PM, SEP 6 @ 9PM power to reset the clock and give them a second is subjected to outlandish discipline, dubious Skate Kitchen follows Camille, whose life as a chance to be together. But each reset adds “de-gaying” methods, and earnest Christian rock lonely suburban teenager changes dramatically new complications and takes them farther and songs—but this unusual setting also provides when she befriends a group of girl skateboard- farther away from the real world – until they risk her with an unlikely gay community. ers. As she journeys deeper into this raw New losing sight of reality altogether. York City subculture, she begins to understand AUG 6 – English dubbed. the true meaning of friendship as well as her inner self. metrocinema.org 7 SERIES & REPERTORY Metro Movie Party! REEL FAMILY CINEMA

Take one extremely un-serious film, add Metro Cinema offers family friendly classic and contemporary movies most Saturday afternoons. as many crazy fun elements as we can jam Come early and enjoy themed lobby activities before films. Free admission for children 12 & under. in (drink specials, live performance, etc), remove all sense of propriety, and serve with a dash of irony. The Dark Crystal USA/UK 1982, 93 min, Dir: Jim Henson, Frank Oz JUL 7 @ 1PM Jen, raised by the noble race called the Mys- tics, has been told that he is the last survivor of his own race, the Gelflings. He sets out to try to find a shard of the dark crystal, a powerful gem that once provided balance to the universe. After the crystal was broken, the evil Skek- sis used sinister means to gain control. Jen believes that he can repair the dark crystal and bring peace back to the world, if he can only find the remaining shard.

The Room – 15th Anniversary USA 2003, 99 min, Dir: Tommy Wiseau Spy Kids JUL 6 @ 9:30PM – 15th Anniversary/ USA 2001, 88 min, Dir: Robert Rodriguez Metro Movie Party!, AUG 3 @ 11:30PM @ 1PM The film widely considered the “Citizen Kane of JUL 21 Two young kids become spies in attempt to bad movies” is back! Be sure to catch Tommy save their parents, who are ex-spies, from an and his friends the first Friday of the month evil mastermind. Armed with a bag of high tech for a late night screening this classic piece of gadgets and out-of-this world transportation, so-bad-it’s-good cinema. You’re our favourite Carmen and Juni bravely jet through the air, customer. Thanks a lot! Bye. dive under the seas and crisscross the globe in Audience participation is encouraged, a series of thrilling adventures on a mission to but please respect the theatre and fellow save their parents...and maybe even the world. patrons.

The Great Muppet Caper UK/USA 1981, 97 min, Dir: Jim Henson JUL 28 @ 1PM Kermit and Fozzie are newspaper reporters sent to London to interview Lady Holiday, a wealthy fashion designer whose priceless diamond necklace is stolen. Kermit meets and falls in love with her secretary, Miss Piggy. The jewel thieves strike again, and this time, frame Miss Piggy. It’s up to Kermit and Muppets to Beach Party bring the real culprits to justice. USA 1963, 101 min, Dir: William Asher AUG 4 @ 6:30PM It’s summer time and what better way to celebrate than with the final installment of Matilda Beach Party! We close out this exploration of USA 1996, 98 min, Dir: Danny DeVito American beach cinema with the first epony- mous AIP Beach Party film. Take a load off, AUG 4 @ 1PM listen to rocking surf of The Tsunami Brothers This film adaptation of a Roald Dahl work at 6:30, have a tropical drink, and witness the tells the story of Matilda Wormwood, a gifted film that started a phenomenon. See Annette girl forced to put up with crude, and distant Funicello and Frankie Avalon surfing it up parents. Worse, Agatha Trunchbull, the evil and hanging out. Beach Party is also notable principal at Matilda’s school, is a terrifyingly for featuring the wild styling of Dick Dale and strict bully. However, when Matilda realizes the Del-Tones. So kick back, relax, and let the she has the power of telekinesis, she begins party begin. Curated by Maggie Hardy. to defend her friends from Trunchbull’s wrath and fight back against her unkind parents.

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. 9 @ COM 94 CKUA UA. fm RAD CK IO gan r i c o adio r Sunday Classics Sci-Fi Cinema Metro takes you back to the golden days of Holly- Sci-Fi Cinema is a series presenting the best in futuristic settings, alternative history, wood with much-loved films, back on the big screen space opera, time travel, super humans, and extraterrestrial life. and in the kind of theatre they were made for. Seniors Only: 2 for 1 tickets at the door Children of Men USA/UK/Japan 2006, 109 min, Dir: Alfonso Cuarón JUL 8 @ 9:30PM, JUL 10 @ 9:30PM The world’s youngest citizen has just died at 18, and humankind is facing the likelihood of its own extinction. Set in and around a dystopian London fractious with violence and warring nationalistic sects, Children of Men follows the unexpected discovery of a lone pregnant woman and the desperate journey to deliver her to safety and restore faith for a future beyond those presently on Earth.

Barbarella – 50th Anniversary The African Queen France/Italy 1968, 98 min, USA/UK 1951, 105 min, Dir: John Huston Dir: Roger Vadim JUL 8 @ 1PM AUG 12 @ 9:30PM, AUG 14 @ 9PM At the start of World War I, Charlie Allnut is us- Barbarella, an astronaut from the 41st century, ing his old steamer, The African Queen, to ferry sets out to find and stop the evil scientist Du- supplies to villages in East Africa. When the Rev. rand Durand, whose Positronic Ray threatens Samuel Sayer dies, Charlie agrees to take Say- to bring evil back into the galaxy. ers’ sister, Rose, back to civilization, and ends up taking on the Germans at the same time.

Music Docs Music Docs is a monthly film series featuring music documentaries, from classic to contemporary. Curated by Tim Rechner, and co-presented with CJSR, Blackbyrd Myoozik, and Steamwhistle.

Oliver! – 50th Anniversary UK 1968, 153 min, Dir: Carol Read AUG 5 @ 1PM In this musical adaptation of Charles Dickens’s Turn it Around: The Story of classic tale, an orphan boy runs away from the orphanage and hooks up with a group of boys East Bay Punk trained to be pickpockets by an elderly mentor. USA 2017, 155 min, Dir: Corbett Redford JUL 10 @ 6:30PM A documentary spanning over 30 years of the California Bay Area’s punk music history with a Two Trains Runnin’ central focus on the emergence of Berkeley’s USA 2016, 80 min, Dir: Sam Pollard inspiring 924 Gilman Street music collective. AUG 7 @ 7PM Narrated by Iggy Pop, Turn It Around: The Story Two Trains Runnin’ is about the search for two of East Bay Punk is the definitive telling of this forgotten blues singers, set in Mississippi vibrant story, drawing from a wide variety of during the height of the civil rights movement. voices and viewpoints. With performances by Gary Clark Jr, Valerie Screens with a new music video by Edmonton June, Lucinda Williams, North Mississippi punk band No Problem: Allstars, Chris Thomas King and more. Eyes Of A Killer (Canada 2018, 5 min, Featuring a live music performance by TBA Dir: Parker Thiessen) at 6:30PM.

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JULY 1 TO 5 - 7PM Isle of Dogs 1PM Dark Crystal – CLOSED FOR 9:30PM The Room Reel Family Cinema SUMMER – 15th Anniversary / 4PM Private Event THEATRE Metro Movie Party! 7PM The Terminator MAINTENANCE – Practically Awesome 9:30PM Isle of Dogs

Isle of Dogs The Room 8 11AM 9 10 11 12 13 14 - Backstage Tour 7PM Bottle Rocket 12PM FIFA World 12PM FIFA World 7PM Grace Jones: 6PM Red Carpet & 1PM BaleKempa 1PM The African – Wes Anderson’s Cup Semi-Final Cup Semi-Final Bloodlight & Bami Inauguration - IFFA – IFFA Queen – Sunday First & Latest 6:30PM Turn it 7PM Isle of Dogs 9:30PM Isle of Dogs 8PM Sharto Lagu 3:15PM Mom – IFFA Classics 9PM Isle of Dogs Around: The Story 9:30PM Folk Lordz – – IFFA 5:30PM Sudani 4PM Kinky Boots – Wes Anderson’s Of East Bay Punk – Rapid Fire Theatre From Nigeria – IFFA – U of A Alumni First & Latest Music Docs 8PM Village 7PM Clash of the 9:30PM Children Rockstars – IFFA Titans (1981) of Men – Sci-Fi MIDNIGHT – Practically Awesome 9:30PM Children Cinema Dementia 13 of Men – Sci-Fi – Night Gallery Cinema 15 16 17 18 19 20 21

9AM FIFA World 7PM Moon – Staff TBA 7PM Drowning 6:45PM Ikiru 7PM Let the 1PM Spy Kids – Cup Final Pics 9:30PM Disobedi- Mona – Bad Girls – Japanese Masters Sunshine In Reel Family Cinema 1PM Bucket List 9:15PM ence Movie Club 9:30PM 9:15PM The Thing 3:30PM This is – IFFA Disobedience 9:30PM Grace Disobedience (1982) – Practically Parkdale 3:15PM Uma – IFFA Jones: Bloodlight & Awesome TBA 5:30PM My Son is Bami 9:30PM Kuso Gay – IFFA – The Cinema of 8PM Venus - IFFA Psychedelia

22 23 24 25 26 27 28 1PM The Hidden TBA 7PM Let The Sun- 7PM Yojimbo – TBA 7PM Zama 1PM The Great Fortress 9:30PM Let the shine In Japanese Masters 9:30PM Let the TBA Muppet Caper – – 60th Anniversary / Sunshine In 9PM Vampire Clay TBA Sunshine In Reel Family Cinema Japanese Masters 3:30PM FAVA Video 4PM Jaws Kitchen – Practically Awesome TBA 7PM Let the Sun- 9:30PM Zama shine In 9PM Vampire Clay

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TBA 7PM Zama TBA 3:30PM Zama TBA TBA TBA 9:30PM Bullitt – 50th Anniversary / Metro Retro

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tBa 7Pm Breaking the 7Pm RBG 1Pm Maltida 9:30Pm Bullitt – Frame – Art Docs TBA - Reel Family 50th Anniversary / 9:30Pm Zama 11:30Pm The Room Cinema Metro Retro 3:15Pm RBG 6:30Pm Beach Party – Metro Movie Party! 9:30Pm Fireworks

rBG Catwalk 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 1Pm Lu Over the Wall – Eng- 1Pm Oliver 12:30Pm RBG 7Pm Two Trains 7Pm Catwalk: Tales 7Pm Lu Over the 6:30Pm New lish Dubbed – Reel – 50th Anniversary / 2:30Pm Fireworks – Runnin’ – Music from the Cat Show Wall Muslim Cool Family Cinema Sunday Classics English Dubbed Docs Circuit – Cats or 9:15Pm RBG – Reclaiming Our 3:30Pm – The 4Pm FAVA Main tBa 9:15Pm RBG Dogs Narrative Miseducation of Course 7Pm RBG 9Pm Isle of Dogs – 9:30Pm The Cameron Post 7Pm RBG tBa Cats or Dogs Miseducation of 6:30Pm Getting Grace 9:30Pm Cruising Cameron Post midniGht Midnite – HOMO-CIDAL til Dawn: Post- Drag Show Apocalypse! – Night Gallery

12 13 14 15 16 17 18 9:30am Getting Grace 6:30Pm Getting 7Pm The 7Pm Lu Over the edmonton frinGe edmonton frinGe edmonton frinGe 12:30Pm Getting Grace Miseducation of Wall festiVaL festiVaL festiVaL Grace 9:30Pm The Cameron Post 9:30Pm The 3:30Pm tBa – Do Miseducation of 9Pm Barbarella Miseducation of the Rights Thing Cameron Post – 50th Anniversary / Cameron Post 6:15Pm tBa Sci-Fi Cinema – Edmonton Movie Club 9:30Pm Barbarella – 50th Anniversary / Sci-Fi Cinema 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 edmonton frinGe edmonton frinGe edmonton frinGe edmonton frinGe edmonton frinGe edmonton frinGe edmonton frinGe festiVaL festiVaL festiVaL festiVaL festiVaL festiVaL festiVaL

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yellowmetrocinema.org submarine 13 Staff Pics Have you ever wondered what your favourite cinema’s fine staff watches when they’re not at work? From the front of house to behind the scenes, each month one Metro staff member will present their must see film!

Moon UK 2009, 97 min, Dir: Duncan Jones and it’s a seamless success between Rockwell’s moving, mostly solo performance and Jones’ Staff: Jenn Fehr realistic, model-heavy special effects. Could JUL 16 @ 7PM there be a more fitting debut for the son of “Don’t be afraid of the man in the moon, because David Bowie? it’s only me.” Jenn is a long-time Metro volunteer who jumped Moon was filmed with a budget of $5 million, at the opportunity to join the Metro staff for a few over 33 days, with a cast of 11. Duncan Jones’ months while working around school. She prefers first feature film was written for Sam Rockwell, Star Trek over Star Wars and Picard over Kirk.

Night Gallery Night Gallery is an experimental “cinema lounge”, a chance for Edmonton’s late-nite film lovers to get together and take a walk on the weird side. Join us in the intimate Metro Gallery lobby space, where we will explore all the strange things cinema has to offer. Curated by Allan Mulholland.

Midnite til Dawn: Post-Apocalypse! Various Dementia 13 AUG 11 @ MIDNIGHT (until 6AM!) In the season finale for Night Gallery we will be taking over the big USA/Ireland 1963, 75 min, Dir: Francis Ford Coppela screen for a Midnite til Dawn triple feature with a post-apocalyptic JUL 14 @ MIDNIGHT theme ! We will begin our journey into the wasteland with the rarely Have you ever spoken aloud to yourself in a mirror? This is one of the seen 1975 classic A Boy and his Dog, featuring Miami Vice’s Don 13 questions you will have to answer when you take the “D-13” quiz be- Johnston in his first big screen role. Next up is the chilling 1964’s Last fore viewing Dementia 13! Designed as a marketing gimmic by producer Man on Earth, starring Vincent Price as the last human fighting a war Roger Corman, there are actually some unnerving questions, and no against the vampire hoards. The third film will be announced on our right or wrong answers. However, the main reason to see it is because website soon (I need to get this to press before deadline!!) but it will be it was the sophomore film for director Francis Ford Coppela. something awesome! After John Haloran dies, his wife, Louise, fears that she will be denied Put on your comfy clothes and bring a pillow and blanket if you like, his inheritance. Fabricating a story about John traveling to the United pile in the station wagon and come on down for the show, just like the States, she joins the rest of the Haloran family at their Irish estate as old days. The bar will be open extra late, we will have pizza available they hold a memorial for John’s sister, who died in a lake eight years after the first feature, and coffee and donuts after the second film. We ago. Louise schemes to convince Lady Haloran that she can speak with will take a break between each film if you need to stretch your legs or the dead child. However, this plan is interrupted by an axe murderer whatever, and will be playing vintage trailers and other assorted weird- loose on the estate. ness to fill in the gaps between shows. Tickets are only $13!

The Cinema of Psychedelia Drawing on several decades of the most challenging and surreal films, Metro welcomes you to peer into the murky depths of cinema’s more psychedelic concoctions. Celebrating some of the most fas- cinating, inventive and downright strange works of art ever committed to the screen, we invite you to a wonderful, broken world of befuddlement sure to leave an indelible mark on your psyche. No drugs necessary. Curated by Owen Armstrong.

Kuso USA 2017, 94 min, Dir: Flying Lotus Jul 21 @ 9:30PM The bizarre, mutated survivors of Los Angeles’s nightmarish earthquake broadcast their stories on a makeshift network of discarded televisions.

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SATURDAY APPOINTMENTS NOW AVAILABLE oliverparkdental.ca Bad Girls Movie Club Art Docs The Bad Girls Movie Club is a celebration of femme fatales, female gangsters, and all-around badass Art Docs is a bimonthly series of documentaries women. Curated by reporter Jana G. Pruden, and with special appearances by some of Edmonton’s about modern and contemporary art. Featuring own badass ladies, the Bad Girls Movie Club is dedicated to unapologetically different, difficult — and guest speakers, short art history talks, and Q&As sometimes deadly – women. with filmmakers, curators, and artists. Curated and presented by Dr. Kristen Hutchinson. Drowning Mona USA 2000, 96 min, Dir: Nick Gomez JUL 18 @ 7PM The recently deceased Mona Dearly was many things: an abusive wife, a domineering mother, a loud-mouthed neighbor, and a violent malcon- tent. So when her car and corpse are discovered in the Hudson River, police Chief Wyatt Rash immediately suspects murder rather than an accident. But, since the whole community shares a deep hatred for this unceasingly spiteful woman, Rash finds his murder investigation overwhelmed with potential suspects. Breaking The Frame Screens with short film Good Time Girls (2017). Canada 2012, 100 min, Dir: Marielle Nitoslawska AUG 2 @ 7PM An exhilarating new work about the American Metro Retro artist Carolee Schneemann, the trailblazing multi-hyphenate (film, video, performance, Fantastic, entertaining movies deserve time on the big screen as they were meant to be seen, installation) whose work continues to defy regardless of when they were released. Metro Cinema is proud to unearth beloved films of the cultural gravity. Breaking the Frame interweaves past, remastered for today’s cinemas. Schneemann’s films and documentation with po- etic, kinetic mediations concerning art-making, feminism, gender, sexuality, and identity. Bullitt – 50th Anniversary USA 1968, 114 min, Dir: Peter Yates HOMO-CIDAL Drag Show JUL 29 @ 9:30PM, AUG 1 @ 9:30PM Senator Walter Chalmers is aiming to take The House of HOMO-CIDAL is a cult film-in- down mob boss Pete Ross with the help of spired drag troupe hell bent on serving cinema, testimony from the criminal’s hothead brother female impersonation and debauchery in one Johnny, who is in protective custody in San nasty bundle. This horde of devious mavens Francisco under the watch of police lieutenant will provide entertainment before your movie- Frank Bullitt. When a pair of mob hitmen enter viewing experience, twisting your minds for the the scene, Bullitt follows their trail through a better and hopefully the worst! Featuring a live maze of complications and double-crosses. drag performance before each screening.

Yellow Submarine – 50th Anniversary UK/USA 1968, 90 min, Dir: George Dunning AUG 26 @ 9:30PM, AUG 29 @ 7PM Cruising The music-loving inhabitants of Pepperland are under siege by the Blue Meanies, a nasty group West Germany/USA 1980, 102 min, of music-hating creatures. The Lord Mayor of Dir: William Friedkin Pepperland dispatches sailor Old Fred to Liv- AUG 5 @ 9:30PM erpool, England, where he is to recruit the help A psychopath is scouring New York City gay of the Beatles. The sympathetic Beatles ride a clubs and viciously slaying homosexuals. Detec- yellow submarine to the occupied Pepperland, tive Steve Burns is ordered to don leather attire, where the Blue Meanies have no chance against hang at the city’s S&M joints and keep an eye out the Fab Four’s groovy tunes. for the killer. But as Steve becomes immersed in club hopping, he begins to identify with the subculture more than he expected. Meanwhile, Steve behaves distantly around his girlfriend, Nancy, the police force’s homophobia becomes apparent and the killer remains at large. 16 metrocinema.org SPECIAL SCREENINGS & EVENTS Practically Awesome Delete CG: Practical effects do more to serve a story and to satisfy an audience than anything created by a computer program. Let’s celebrate movies that show how practical effects and camera trickery simply work better even when it’s a guy in a monster suit. Green screens be damned. Curated by Scott Hayes.

Jaws Clash of the Titans USA 1975, 124 min, Dir: Steven Spielberg UK/USA 1981, 118 min, JUL 22 @ 4PM The Terminator When a young woman is killed by a shark while Dir: Desmond Davis UK/USA 1984, 107 min, skinny-dipping near the New England tourist JUL 8 @ 7PM town of Amity Island, police chief Martin Brody Dir: James Cameron Perseus, son of the Greek god Zeus, grows up wants to close the beaches, but mayor Larry JUL 7 @ 7PM on a deserted island. His destiny is to marry Vaughn overrules him, fearing that the loss of A seemingly indestructible Android is sent Princess Andromeda, who will someday rule the tourist revenue will cripple the town. Ichthy- from 2029 to 1984 to assassinate a waitress, city of Joppa. But as long as the satyr Calibos is ologist Matt Hooper and grizzled ship captain whose unborn son will lead humanity in a war alive, no one can marry her. Perseus travels to Quint offer to help Brody capture the killer against the machines, while a soldier from that Joppa, where he must defeat Calibos and other beast, and the trio engage in an epic battle of war is sent to protect her at all costs. mythological monsters to rescue Andromeda. man vs. nature.

The Thing USA 1982, 109 min, Dir: John Carpenter JUL 20 @ 9:15PM In remote Antarctica, a group of American research scientists are disturbed at their base camp by a helicopter shooting at a sled dog. When they take in the dog, it brutally attacks both human beings and canines in the camp and they discover that the beast can assume the shape of its victims. A resourceful helicopter pilot and the camp doctor lead the camp crew in a desperate, gory battle against the vicious creature before it picks them all off, one by one.

Backstage Tour The University of Alberta Pride Alumni Chapter and Business Alumni Association The University of Alberta Pride Alumni Chapter and Business Alumni Association are pleased to sponsor this screening of Kinky Boots, in cel- ebration of their LGBTQ business sector.

Kinky Boots USA/UK 2005, 107 min, Dir: Julian Jarrold JUL 8 @ 4PM For generations, the Price family has made very sensible, very conservative shoes for men. The Garneau Ghost Light When times are tough, a collaboration with the JUL 8 @ 11AM LGBTQ+ community may save the business from Get a rare glimpse at the history and hidden imminent bankruptcy. spaces of Edmonton’s grand art deco Garneau Free Admission! Theatre. Your host Dave Clarke takes you on a tour of the Garneau’s storied past and backstage haunts. We can only accommodate a few for the tour – book early to avoid disappointment. Tickets $5. metrocinema.org 17 www.whimsicalcakestudio.com

SPREAD BUTTER NOT HATE Wes Anderson’s First & Latest In 1996 Wes Anderson turned Bottle Rocket his short film USA 1996, 91 min, Dir: Wes Anderson into a full length JUL 9 @ 7PM feature, effectively In Wes Anderson’s first feature film, Anthony has kick-starting his just been released from a mental hospital, only to career. find his wacky friend Dignan determined to begin 22 years & 8 films an outrageous crime spree. After recruiting their later, we celebrate neighbor, Bob, the team embarks on a road trip his first, Bottle in search of Dignan’s previous boss, Mr. Henry. Rocket, & his lat- But the more they learn, the more they realize est, Isle of Dogs. that they do not know the first thing about crime. Screens back-to-back with his latest film Isle of Dogs at 9PM. See page 6.

FIFA World Cup Semi-Finals & Final India Film Festival of Alberta FIFA World Cup July 13 – 15 JUL 10 @ NOON, JUL 11 @ NOON, The 4th Annual India Film Festival of Alberta is bigger JUL 15 @ 9AM and better than ever. This Metro Cinema opens the Garneau to football year’s festival features twelve (soccer) fans for the final matches of World Cup films, in ten languages, from 2018. Enjoy the games with a cold beverage and all parts of India, as well as local commentators. Canada. The films include an Free Admission! independent production by a first time director that went on to win India’s National Award for Best Feature film of the year (Village Rockstars, Assamese); two retrospectives of legendary actors who passed away within the Rapid Fire Theatre last year – Shashi Kapoor (Shakespeare Wallah, English) and Sridevi (Mom, Hindi); two women’s Folk Lordz experience in wanting to live life to the full- JUL 11 @ 9:30PM est (Bucket List, Marathi, and Uma, Bengali); a Rapid Fire Theatre’s critically-acclaimed Folk comedy about an Indo-Canadian trans woman Lordz present a screening of their brand new coming to terms with her different families (Ve- sketch comedy series! Political, absurd, and nus, English); a drama about an Indian teenager darkly hilarious, the new Folk Lordz series is a discovering his sexuality and how his family bold new take on the Canadian comedy tradi- deals with it (My Son is Gay, Tamil); a film about tion. Reflecting Indigenous, immigrant, and African soccer players working in India (Sudani activist perspectives through the lens of biting from Nigeria, Malayalam); and an examination satire, the 15-part series doesn’t shy away from of the marital issues of a rural bangle seller having a big, dumb laugh in the face of society’s (Balekempa, Kannada). This is the first time a ills. Come take in all 15 of these short, hilari- Kannada film is included in IFFA. IFFA is also ous, sketches on the big screen! Supported by collaborating with Shakespeare in the Park to the Canada Council for the Arts - New Chapter bring in two Indian films adapted from Shake- Program, Edmonton Heritage Council, and Rapid spearean dramas, which will be screened at Fire Theatre. Hawrelak Park (Shakespeare Wallah and Haider). Tickets $12 in advance or $15 at the door. No For more information & advance tickets: Metro Passes. Q & A following the screening. indiafilmfestival.ca

Industrial Workers of the World and Alberta Public Interest Research Group I.W.W. Edmonton & APiRG present two documentaries about the precarious conditions of the working class and effective strategies to defend against housing displacement and exploitative employment practices.

This is Parkdale The Hand That Feeds Canada 2017, 35 min, USA 2017, 84 min, Dir: The Parkdale Organizes Collective Dir: Robin Blotnick, Rachel Lears JUL 21 @ 3:30PM JUL 21 @ 3:30PM In the summer of 2017, in the Toronto neigh- Risking deportation and loss of livelihood, mi- bourhood of Parkdale, over 300 tenants living grant workers at a fast food restaurant fight to across 12 apartment buildings went on rent form their own independent union. strike to protest a wave of rent increases that would have displaced members of their com- munity, taking on the biggest corporate landlord in their neighbourhood. metrocinema.org 19 MAKE WIN VIDEOS MONEY VUEWEEKLY’S ANNUAL AMATEUR PORNOGRAPHY FESTIVAL RETURNS NEXT YEAR! It is never too early, too cold, or too Christmasy to start making steamy videos for the Blue Revue. BLUEREVUE.CA

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This series showcases a wide selection of Japa- nese films by four of the master directors of the Golden Age of Japanese Cinema. Metro show- cased Ozu, Mizoguchi, and Ichikawa in May and June, and now focus on Kurosawa. This action film director who learned his craft from watch- ing American Westerns. Kurosawa’s great The Hidden Fortress formed the inspiration for Star Wars. Curated by Emily Collins.

The Hidden Fortress (Kakushi-toride no san-akunin) – 60th Anniversary Japan 1958, 139 min, Dir: Akira Kurosawa defeated clan’s princess as the two smuggle royal treasure across hostile territory. Ac- Japanese with subtitles companying them are a pair of bumbling, JUL 22 @ 1PM conniving peasants who may or may not be A grand-scale adventure as only Akira their friends. The Hidden Fortress delivers Kurosawa could make one, The Hidden Kurosawa’s trademark deft blend of wry Fortress stars the inimitable Toshiro Mifune humor, breathtaking action, and compas- as a general charged with guarding his sionate humanity.

Ikiru Japan 1952, 143 min, Dir: Akira Kurosawa Japanese with subtitles JUL 19 @ 6:45PM One of the greatest achievements by Akira Kurosawa, Ikiru shows the director at his most compassionate—affirming life through an exploration of death. Kanji Watanabe is an aging bureaucrat with stomach cancer who is impelled to find meaning in his final days. Presented in a radically conceived two­part structure and shot with a perceptive, human- istic clarity of vision, Ikiru is a multifaceted look at what it means to be alive. Yojimbo (Yôjinbô) Japan 1961, 110 min, Dir: Akira Kurosawa Seibei. The town is a den of inequity, not only due to the warlords and their hired thugs, but Japanese with subtitles due to the hordes of gamblers that inhabit it. JUL 25 @ 7PM The samurai sets out to rid the town of all these A samurai, Sanjuro Kuwabatake, finds himself pestilences, his plan being to play the two war- in a town run by two warlords, Ushitora and lords off against each other.

The Film and Video Arts Society of Alberta (FAVA) Video Kitchen Main Course JUL 28 @ 3:30PM AUG 5 @ 4PM FAVA is proud to present new works from their FAVA is thrilled to be premiering these brand introductory digital film course, Video Kitchen. new, local short films showcasing the work With a healthy mix of theory and practice, Video of their intermediate filmmaking class, Main Kitchen offers aspiring film and video artists Course. These emerging filmmakers bring their the opportunity to gain new skills and develop newly acquired skills to their own short film their own personal vision within a supportive through all stages of development and shoot on and collaborative environment. Each student has cameras like the SR3, Arri III, or EPIC. Students the opportunity to shoot and edit their own short learn budgeting, scheduling, advanced camera film. The class culminates at Metro Cinema and production technique, advanced post- where they get to share their emerging work production workflow including sound mix and with an audience. colour correction. The class culminates at Metro Admission by donation Cinema where the audience gets a chance to dip into a diverse range of content and style. Admission by donation metrocinema.org 21 Cats or Dogs Metro Cinema would never dare weigh in on the debate about whether cats or dogs are better (dogs, clearly), but here are a couple of films that might help you make up your mind.

Catwalk: Tales From the Cat Show Circuit Canada 2018, 75 min, Dir: Aaron Hancox, Michael McNamara AUG 8 @ 7PM Meet the fascinating felines and the people who pamper them in this whimsical look at the ins and outs of Canada’s competitive cat show circuit, where the claws come out when a Turkish Angora and an adorable fluffy red Persian face off to take Isle of Dogs home the national award for Best in Show. AUG 8 @ 9PM Screening on International Cat Day. See page 6.

Reclaiming Our Narrative Edmonton International StoryHive Reclaiming Our Narrative is a film series Fringe Theatre Festival shining a bright and brilliant light into the lives and stories of Muslims living in the West. Given the global political climate of fear and hate around Islam and Muslims, now, more than ever, it is crucial to give a platform to the Muslim experience: Who are Muslims? What does it mean to be a Western Muslim? What are the intimate and personal stories of the Muslims? Through films pro- duced and directed by Western Muslims, this series is a platform for the silenced voices in the community. Curated & Sponsored by The Green Room Youth Program - Islamic Family & Social Services. StoryHive Fringe ‘O’ Saurus Rex 2018 Canada, 120 min, Dir: Various August 16 – 26 Metro Cinema goes live for the Edmonton AUG 28 @ 7PM Fringe Theatre Festival. Whether you’re look- StoryHive supports the creation of original video ing for fantastic storytelling, innovative im- and interactive media in Alberta and BC. In the prov, saucy burlesque, or great international summer of 2018, it funded 20 Albertan artists’ theatre artists, we’re your place to relax with short films. Come enjoy a selection of fantastic a beer and a show. new drama, documentary, and experimental shorts films, with many of the filmmakers in Advance tickets and listings at fringetheatre.ca. attendance. Tickets also available at the door. Free Admission!

50th Anniversary Films / 2018/19 Season Launch

New Muslim Cool USA 2009, 83 min, Dir: Jennifer Maytorena Taylor AUG 10 @ 6:30PM Puerto Rican American rapper Hamza Pérez ended his life as a drug dealer 12 years ago, and started down a new path as a young Mus- lim. Now he’s moved to Pittsburgh’s tough North Side to start a new religious commu- nity, rebuild his shattered family, and take his message of faith to other young people You may have noticed a selection of 50th an- 7 @ 7PM. This FREE show also acts as the through his uncompromising music as part of niversary films (Bullitt / Oliver! / Barbarella / annual launch of new & returning film series the hip-hop duo M-Team. Yellow Submarine) throughout the guide. 1968 for the 2018/19 season. So mark your calendar Sponsored by The Green Room Youth was a great year for movies and to cap this and join The Metro, Dr. Zira & Cornelius, Dr. Program - Islamic Family & Social Services salute off Metro Cinema will be screening a Ziaus & Taylor for a night of film celebration Association. newly restored, 50th anniversary version of past & present, human & simian. the original Planet of the Apes on September 22 metrocinema.org

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